Puppet Job Trends in Berkshire

Puppet
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire citing Puppet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	138	-	135
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-1
Permanent jobs citing Puppet	3	0	3
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire	0.081%	-	0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category	1.95%	-	0.98%
Number of salaries quoted	3	0	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	£73,500
25^th Percentile	£57,500	-	£75,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	-	£80,000
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-13.51%
75^th Percentile	£62,500	-	£85,000
90^th Percentile	-	-	£86,500
South East median annual salary	£75,000	£57,500	£62,500
% change year-on-year	+30.43%	-8.00%	+35.87%

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

Puppet falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing systems management skills in Berkshire.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing systems management skills	154	203	307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire	4.14%	10.86%	13.95%
Number of salaries quoted	114	49	179
10^th Percentile	£37,500	£39,250	£45,000
25^th Percentile	£42,500	£45,000	£52,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,250	£49,000	£70,000
Median % change year-on-year	+16.84%	-30.00%	+23.84%
75^th Percentile	£83,438	£61,250	£82,500
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£85,000	£95,000
South East median annual salary	£60,000	£50,000	£57,513
% change year-on-year	+20.00%	-13.06%	+4.57%

Puppet Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Puppet relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Puppet Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Puppet.

Puppet Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Slough	-	3	£60,000	-
Puppet South East

Puppet Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, job vacancies citing Puppet also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Berkshire region citing Puppet.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Ansible	100.0%	3
1	AWS	100.0%	3
1	CentOS	100.0%	3
1	Change Control	100.0%	3
1	Change Management	100.0%	3
1	Configuration Management	100.0%	3
1	Data Centre Operations	100.0%	3
1	Fintech	100.0%	3
1	Firewall	100.0%	3
1	Infrastructure as Code	100.0%	3
1	Infrastructure Automation	100.0%	3
1	Linux	100.0%	3
1	LXC	100.0%	3
1	Problem-Solving	100.0%	3
1	Progress Chef	100.0%	3
1	Red Hat	100.0%	3
1	Runbook	100.0%	3
1	Structured Cabling	100.0%	3
1	Terraform	100.0%	3
1	Ubuntu	100.0%	3
1	Validation	100.0%	3
1	VLAN	100.0%	3

Puppet Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Systems Management

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Ansible	100.0%	3
1	Progress Chef	100.0%	3